With a few minor reductions along the way, the Student Services Finance Committee voted to grant the Campus Women’s Center their $71,911.50 operating budget for the 2019-’20 biennium in an unanimous vote Monday.
French, German, geography, geoscience, history and two art majors remain scheduled for removal. After the initial announcement last spring, ensuing faculty retirements and resignations resulting from deficits and decreasing enrollment allowed university officials to maintain the remaining seven majors.
Despite winning more than half of the votes in state elections, systemic advantages handed Democrats only one-third of the seats in the state Assembly.
The Baraboo School District is investigating a photo released on social media showing dozens of its high school students giving what appears to be a Nazi salute on the steps of the Sauk County Courthouse. The photo, supposedly taken before last semester’s junior prom, received national attention after it was posted to Twitter Sunday evening.
Following months of planning and drafting, Madison’s city council will vote Tuesday to adopt the capital and operating budgets for 2019. The capital budget — funded mostly by borrowing and grants from the federal and state governments — provides for city projects, improvements, and maintenance.
Candidates running for 132 state-level Wisconsin offices spent nearly $11 million in total on their campaigns, an analysis of pre-election reports filed with the Wisconsin Campaign Finance Information System performed by The Daily Cardinal revealed. One hundred sixty state Assembly candidates and 30 state Senate candidates’ combined total campaign disbursements were $10,990,854.24, according to available data.
This year marks the 19th year that the U.S Department of State and the U.S Department of Education are joining forces to create International Education Week, which spans campuses including UW-Madison. IEW, held Nov. 12-16, will celebrate the advantages of international education and exchange worldwide.
March For Our Lives Madison hosted a vigil celebrating the lives lost in yet another mass shooting. A crowd of roughly 20 UW-Madison students and community members gathered on Library Mall Sunday to mourn the loss of the 12 people killed at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California on Nov. 7.
A century after the armistice was signed to end World War I, UW System students and faculty united to learn about methods for expanding accessibility to veterans across university campuses.
UW-Madison student organizations will celebrate Veterans Day with events held at the Memorial Union and libraries on campus.
Now in its third year, UW-Green Bay is partaking in a restoration project that seeds wild rice in various sites of the bay to improve ecosystems and strengthen coastal wetland habitats.
In response to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ resignation at the request of President Trump, hundreds of Madison residents concerned with the protection of Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation rallied on the steps of the Wisconsin State Capitol Thursday evening. Sessions, who had recused himself from overseeing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia, resigned as Attorney General Wednesday, with his Chief of Staff Matthew Whitaker replacing him.
Former UW-Madison Chancellor Donna Shalala won a seat in the southern Florida congressional election, after flipping the typically Republican-held House district Tuesday.
After Democrat Governor elected, Republican leaders consider limits
The 2018 gubernatorial election results accounted for millions of votes across the country, with an especially high voter turnout in UW-Madison students. Communications Specialist Xai Xiong said that of the eight total polling locations on campus, the voter turnout totaled 87 percent of those eligible to vote at these wards.
The Global Health Institute and the School of Veterinary Medicine at UW-Madison celebrated One Health Day by featuring keynote speaker Dr. Jonathan Sleeman. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, One Health Day is a global health campaign that hopes to address the shared health threats that humans, animals and the environment face by using a One Health approach.
After a slew of key absentee ballots arrived from Milwaukee, Governor-elect Tony Evers carried the lead throughout the night, eventually succeeding Scott Walker in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Now, he has gained the opportunity to achieve goals of changing public education that his campaign was built on.
Democrats won every partisan statewide race in Wisconsin Tuesday, but Republicans seem ready to do everything they can to protect the reforms they enacted under exiting Gov. Scott Walker.
Voter turnout for the November 2018 gubernatorial election reached a record high of 92.9 percent — the highest pre-registered voter turnout in Wisconsin’s history. The November 2014 gubernatorial vote was 69.5 percent.
Following an unprecedented period of early voting in the city of Madison and Dane County, turnout on Election Day exceeded expectations for the midterm and governor elections.
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